“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” [Donald J. Trump] Yes, we have entered the territory of 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Windup Girl, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, and especially, Fahrenheit 451—every dystopian future you have read about and feared. Donald J. Trump’s hysteria over reality became eminently clear at the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Kansas City, Missouri on Tuesday, July 24, 2018: “Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” said Trump to an applauding audience who appeared to be under mass hypnosis. While someRead More →

Still looking for the smoke in the Russia/Trump collusion investigation? Try opening your eyes to the full-scale bombs going off in our yards. If you think Russia’s Vladimir Putin would be a friend, as Donald J. Trump has claimed repeatedly, consider these few factors: Putin’s KGB background, the attack he ordered on Russian children in a school in Beslan, children who were held hostage by Chechen rebels. Putin ordered no negotiations and had the school fire bombed, killing 250 children, injuring hundreds more. Putin has ordered Russian state trials of 50 journalists critical of the Putin regime. During Putin’s time ruling Russia, some 200 RussianRead More →

Let’s be fair. To Trump critics and those in the resistance: let’s give Donald J. Trump credit where credit is due. Coming from a business background, not one of service, he has, nevertheless and at times awkwardly so, managed to take down huge swaths of our democracy, institution by institution, principle by principle. He is deep in the process of gutting our economy long term by promoting and signing into law obscene tax cuts to the millionaire/billionaire class of Americans, jeopardizing bankrupting the country in the long term. He has fairly surreptitiously invited Putin and all his former KGB assassins and spies in our backdoor.Read More →

Former Soviet-era, KGB Foreign Intelligence Officer, and current Russian President/Dictator Vladimir Putin has long held democracies in contempt. Why waste time verbally sparring with an opponent when vials of a fatal plant poison or a hail of bullets are so much more effective in ending the debate? Putin would likely argue this point, as his record of eliminating critics and political rivals is truly unnerving if now outright terrifying. Whether it is ordering the assassination of a former Russian Parliament member or Russian oligarch “leaker,” Putin is nothing if not ambitious. For those who are interested in a more detailed reveal of the assassinations underRead More →